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Leading up to their second LP, birdwatching, Briana Wright and Joey Duffy tell us how their latest track plays into the record’s broader theme of self-improvement in a deteriorating world.

With the indie label that launched the careers of DFA 1979, Metric, and more celebrating two decades, we spoke with label manager Chris Moncada about how they’ve grown without really changing at all.

The new supergroup featuring members of Mineral, Boys Life, Christie Front Drive, and more will release their self-titled debut on August 30 via Spartan Records.

The long-running New Jersey emo project harks back to the desperate, youthful energy of their earliest output with more profundity, introspection, and consideration in their lyrics.

The Birmingham-based songwriter’s latest is an intense tug of war between light and dark, which ultimately soundtracks the healing of scars and the gathering of strength.

The native New Yorkers (for now) will release A Paradoxical Theory of Change, their sophomore album for Fat Wreck Chords, on June 28.

Returning to his roots in jazz, the songwriter revisits familiar standards of the genre with a perfect combination of respect and reinvention.

The debut solo album from Portishead’s vocalist poignantly straddles a divide between the bucolic and the experimental, past and the present, youth and older age.

The punk outfit’s hallmarks remain as powerful as ever on their guest-heavy tenth record, which feels less like a swan song than a reassertion of intent.

The Pernice Brothers and Grandaddy songwriters share a profound love of biking, so we got the pair to talk about that. And they did. A lot.

Brian McTernan’s hardcore endeavor shares their first new music since their 2022 Hello Sun EP, with both tracks out now via Equal Vision Records.

Punk rock’s premiere cover band/trolls will release the full performance under the title Blow It…at Madison’s Quinceañera on June 14 via Fat Wreck Chords.

The set took place on November 18 as the Minneapolis-based indie-pop outfit was touring their then-new release.

Playful but serious, retro but thoroughly modern, Lizzie Killian sets her insecurities to melodies that belie their ’90s-sourced inspiration on her debut album.

Challenging and confrontational, both hardcore-punk bands on this split EP manage to capture the violence of life on a dying planet while offering hope that all’s not lost.

In our latest digital cover, which features an exclusive behind-the-scenes video of his recent tour, we explore the many facets of the artist as he continues to tease his fourth LP while expanding his resumé by writing arrangements for Beyoncé, touring with Lil Yachty, and covering Talking Heads for A24’s upcoming tribute album.

Densely textured yet sparsely minimal, Irish songwriter Constance Keane’s second solo album is unrelenting in its intense emotions.

The Rochester emo-pop four-piece gets the balance of tender elegy and post-adolescent reckless abandon perfectly right on all 12 of their sophomore album’s formidable songs.

The Scottish duo’s first album in seven years shimmers with a noticeable sense of freedom as the tracklist unspools into a free-for-all collection that’s both challenging and fulfilling.

Although dominated by his distinctive vocal warbling, Boeckner’s solo debut is far from just Wolf Parade lite as it leans into retro-futuristic takes on Springsteen, Depeche Mode, and other sounds of the ’80s.